Convertible furniture



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CONVERTIBLE FURNITURE.

Application filed November 10, 1921. Serial No. 51%,810.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, CHARLns Ecume- WALDER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city of New York, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Convertible Furniture, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in articles of furniture, and has for its main object to provide such an article which is convertible from a table into a settee, or vice versa, so that space may be economized and expense reduced,

Another object of the invention is to providean article of furniture of the character described that serves at the same time as a storing place for chairs or stools, to be used either in conjunction with the table or the settee. I l

A further object of the invention is to produce an article of furniture of the type mentioned which is simple in construction, eliicient in operation, durable in use and capable of manufacture on a commercial scale, or in other words one which is not so diificult to make as to be beyond the reasonable cost of such an article.

With these and other objects in view, which will more fully appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the combination, arrangement and construction of parts hereinafter described, pointed out in the appendedclaims and illustrated in the accompanying ings, it being understood that many changes may be made in the size and pro portion of the several parts and details of construction within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

One of the many possible embodiments of the invention is illustrated in the accom panying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a table constructed in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 is a section taken on line 22 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 33 of Fig. 1, on a smaller scale.

in the drawings, the numeral 10 indicates two uprights, made in the form of plate members and constituting, as will hereinafter appear, the legs of the convertible article of furniture. The lower portion of each upright may be of any suitable configuration, while its upper portion 11 is substantially trapeziforrn, the larger one of the two parallel sides of the trapezium, denoted by the numeral 12, constituting the top edge of the respective upright, and the nonparallel sides 13 thereof being, preferably, inclined at the same angle to the longitudinal axis of the upright. The two uprights are spaced and secured together by two plates 14 and 15, both of which are disposed horizontally, the plate 14 joining the trapeziform portions of the uprights and the plate 15 being located adjacent the lower edges of the uprights. Above the top edge 12 of each upright project two lugs 16, preferably, made integral with the upright and situated as close as possible to the inclined edges 13 above referred to. On the 16 lugs is adapted to rest a table top 17, provided with transverse cleats 18, which abut against the said lugs. Each of these cleats is provided with two apertures 19, adapted to be brought into alignment with apertures 20 in the respective lugs 16. When all of the apertures are in alignment, there are adapted to be passed pins 21 through the cleats and uprights, so as to hold the table top in operative position upon the said uprights.

Along each longitudinal edge of the plate 15 there is hinged to the latter, as shown at 22, a door 22, said doors extending from upright to upright and from the plate 15 to the plate 14, thereby forming a storage chamber for stools 23. In order to hold the doors 22 in closing positions, there may be any suitable means provided, for instance spring catches 24 on the doors, capable of extending into notches 25in the underface of the plate 14.

When the article of furniture is to be used as a table, the top 17 rests on the lugs 16,

as shown in full lines in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. The top is held in this position by extending all pins 21 through the lugs 16 and cleats 18 on the uprights and top 17, respectively. The stools 23 may be removed from the storage chamber by 0pening either one of the doors 22, the door being closed after the stools have been taken out. The stools may be of any suitable configuration and construction, they resting on the plate 15 when in the storage chamber.

Vfhen the table is to be converted into a settee, two of the pins 21 are withdrawn from the apertures on either side of the "the top m table, and the top 17 swung around the remaining two pins, as a pivot, until it abuts against the inclined edges 13 of the uprights on that side of the latter on which the pivot pins are left on the said uprights. The plate 14 constitutes then the seatof the settee and the table top 17 the back thereof. Attention is called to the fact that the top 17 projects on each side of the uprights a dis tance beyond the "same which is somewhat greater than the length'of an inclined edge 13. This becomes'necessary in order that project below the plate 14,

hen forming the back of the settee, as

shown in dotted lines in Fig. '2 of the drawings.

"The 'top 17 may be swung around either "set'of pivot pins 16, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The pun posepf thisarrangement is to'permit the table to be convertedin'to a settee from eitherfside of the article of furniture, there- 'by"saving shifting around of the latter in case it'stands near a wall or other obstacle. For the samereason there'are provided two doors 22, one on each side of the furniture.

"What I claim is 1 article of furniture comprising a support having two uprights, the upper portion offeach upright being trapeziform and the longer one of the two parallel sides of the trapezium forming'the upper edge of the upright, a horizontal plate spacing and securing together said uprights, said plate joining the. trapeziform portions of said uprights, a table top resting on said uprights and projecting longitudinally beyond the tobe swung around either set of said pins When the other set 18 disengaged from said top and said uprights into abutment with those non-parallel sides of said trapeziform sections adjacent which the pivot pins are left'in said uprights, thereby forming a back for the seat constituted by said plate.

'2. In an article of furnitureaccording to claim 1, the non-parallel sides of each trapezifo'rm portion being inclined at the same angletot'he longitudinal axis of the respective upright. q

Signed at New York, in the county of New "York and State of New York, this 31st day of October, A. D., 1921;

CHARLES ECKENWALDER. 

